[ILUG] replacing mult. newlines

From: Matthew Sammon (sammonm at domain tcd.ie)
Date: Tue 05 Oct 1999 - 18:17:00 IST


Hi,

Just a quick question:

How do I replace newlines with something else in multiple
files, preferably using awk or sed?

I need to replace:
FOO
: BAR

with:
FOO: BAR

I have tried using gsub(/\n:/,":"), gsub(/\n$:/,":"), gsub(/\n$^:/,":")
and gsub(/\n^:/,":") within an awk script, doesn't work tho.

TIA

Matthew

Matthew Sammon |
Yr2 CompSci TCD |
sammonm at domain tcd.ie |



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